Pakistan's Nuclear Test - May 28, 1998 (Youm-e-Takbeer)
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Youm-e-Takbir (Urdu: یوم تکبیر ‎, lit. The day of greatness) is celebrated as a national day in Pakistan on May 28 in commemoration of Chagai-I and Chagai-II when Pakistan detonated seven nuclear devices in response to India's five detonations of Pokhran-II in 1998, 17 days after the incident. Thus, Pakistan became the 7th World Nuclear Power and the 1st in the Muslim World
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